Warhammer 40 A New Hope

Before he could finish his words, the mutant captain in red armor was thrown in front of him, and the extractor was inserted into his jaw again.

"and then?"

"... Just press the button above, and it will automatically perform the invasion operation, but the invasion of this thing is not 100% successful, there is a possibility of failure, and whether the [Original] will appear is not 100%..."

"Go and capture a few more high-level tongues, quickly!" the leading Catachan soldier shouted. "Dispose of the rest on the spot."

Bang bang bang!

As the order was given, the other three mutant soldiers were immediately killed and turned into corpses.

"..." For some reason, the XCOM team members felt sorry for these mutant soldiers.

drop--

At this moment, a beeping sound was heard from the skull extractor, and the indicator light on it turned green.

"It succeeded, but it seems not..."

Once again, before the XCOM soldier could finish his words, a clear psychic wave came from outside the room.

"Looks like we hit the jackpot."

The transparent [Original] with a gel-covered body appeared here due to an unknown connection to the psychic network and began to look around.

boom!

Hearing the gunshots, the [Original] immediately dodged, and a large number of dense small bullets hit the wall behind him.

"Catch it! Whoever lets it escape won't be able to drink until this mission is over!"

For a moment, this [Original] was a little confused.

Although he was not the strongest alien soldier among all the elders, he still caused considerable trouble to the human resistance army with his teleportation and psychic powers.

But what’s going on now that these humans are not only not afraid of me, but instead rush towards me like hungry wolves?

Even without much self-awareness, [Original] sensed that something was wrong and immediately used his teleportation ability to reach the rooftop of a building, away from the Catachans running towards it.

"Don't let it get away!"

Yuan Dian, who had distanced himself, began to aim the psychic gun in his hand at the enemy on the ground, but suddenly, he was hugged from behind and his whole body fell backwards.

German back throw!

boom!

[Original], who was caught off guard and thrown onto his back, immediately unleashed his psychic energy, trying to shake off the enemy who was holding him.

But the result was that despite the powerful psychic energy that tore several bloody wounds on its body, the human holding it did not let go.

At this moment, other Catachan warriors have arrived here.

Upon seeing this, Yuan Dian immediately wanted to use his teleportation ability to leave. Judging from the brief encounter just now, he could not fight these strong and somewhat abnormal humans head-on by himself.

The psychic energy fluctuations reappeared, and the Catachan warrior at the front of the running belt rushed directly to the embraced [Original], and knocked down the teammate who was controlling it with one punch.

The sudden attack interrupted the transmission process, and then a group of Catachan tough guys surrounded it.

"Tied it up! Alive!"

"This thing can teleport. Will it work if I tie it up?"

"Is there an Untouchable? Tie it together with the Untouchable!"

"We don't have that stuff. If we did, it's on the ship. It's too late to call for help now."

"I remember that this thing only has a head and a spine-like thing as the main body. Take that thing off!"

This [Original] could never have imagined that he would be captured at close range by a group of humans, who even threatened to dismantle his main body in front of him.

In order to protect the information in the brain of this [Original] to the greatest extent possible, this group of Catachan warriors adopted the most primitive method to "shut down" it - taking turns to hammer its only physical part with their fists.

Under the continuous punches, the various functions of this [Original] could not function normally, and eventually dissipated, leaving only his main body - the [Original Brain].

This series of operations undoubtedly refreshed the perspectives of each member of the XCOM team.

[Original] This type of enemy collection will also split into sub-individuals without weapons and the main body (origin brain). If you are not careful, it is very likely that the original enemy will run everywhere.

Attacking its main body can indeed temporarily disable its abilities, but considering the various abilities of the [Original], this is undoubtedly difficult, and it will often teleport away as soon as you get close to it.

And these Catachan warriors captured what might be the most intact [Original Brain] through close combat?

"Am I dreaming..."

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54. Project Incarnation

The almost intact [Original Brain] floated in front of Master Kua Kuaat, and the majestic psychic power was slowly invading this alien artifact in front of him.

The restarted [Original] tried to resist or self-destruct at the first moment, but this was not the [Shadow Chamber] that was hastily built by the XCOM organization. With complete defense and isolation measures, plus a psychic/magic master who was stronger than a single elder, it could only wait and have all its secrets revealed.

Aaaah——!

Soon, accompanied by a scream, the transparent body of [Original] disappeared again, and the floating [Original Brain] also fell to the ground.

"How?" Zhang Yi asked.

"Not completely, but enough." Master Kwa-Kwat responded. "They plan to speed up..."

"Is it the [Avatar Project]?"

"That should be correct," he said. "They plan to abandon all unnecessary things, reduce their military strength, and complete the so-called [Incarnation Plan] as quickly as possible."

"By then, 90% of the warm-blooded people (humans) on this planet will die."

"Any more information?"

"No, its permissions can only detect these things."

"That means I have to go to another meeting."

． ． ． A few hours later ． ． ．

City A - Downtown Conference Room Hall

Under Zhang Yi's urgent call, human resistance forces from various factions have arrived one after another, and documents recording the elders' latest action plans have been distributed to everyone present.

"They accelerated the progress of the [Avatar Project]?!" the military officer was surprised. "But..."

"Obviously, our successive victories on the front battlefield have made the elders feel threatened," Zhang Yi said. "So they decided to start the [Incarnation Plan] before they were fully prepared."

"According to the preliminary research results of our corresponding technicians, the elder's [Incarnation Plan] is carried out through the psionic network."

"The purpose of the global chip implantation activity is to connect everyone to their psychic network, so that after the [Avatar Plan] officially begins, they can directly screen and seize the bodies of qualified people through the psychic network."

"So, they are constantly calling on everyone to implant chips, and at the same time they are constantly stabilizing and debugging the psychic network."

"But it's obvious that our presence has completely disrupted their plans, so they are desperate and are planning to start their plan before everyone is connected to the psychic network and fully debugged."

"What will happen to the humans who are not chosen by them?" asked the XCOM commander.

"They will die," Zhang Yi said. "At the same time, even if they are people who don't have the chip implanted, the spiritual energy that explodes after the [Avatar Plan] begins will have a bad effect on them."

"Now it's my turn to ask questions." Zhang Yi looked at the human resistance in front of him and said, "What is the extent of your intelligence on the elders?"

"...We only know the reason why the elders invaded the earth, that they are abnormally 'withering', and the existence of the [Avatar Project]." The military officer said. "More than that, we don't know..."

"So you don't know about the existence of the Avatar, and you haven't found a psychic portal somewhere?"

"what is that?"

"Your progress is slower than I expected." Zhang Yi covered his face. "In this case, many solutions can't be used..."

Next, everyone began a heated discussion in order to resolve the [Incarnation Plan] that could be launched at any time.

Betos of the Skirmishers faction proposed to destroy as many psychic network transmission devices in various cities as possible to interfere with the implementation of the Incarnation Plan.

But apart from the strict defense forces around the psychic network transmission devices in each city, the psychic network transmission devices themselves are extremely difficult to destroy, and ordinary explosives have no chance of destroying them at all.

And they couldn't tell whether the elders had a backup plan...

Volker of the Death God faction proposed to use the Knights Templar and Zhang Yifang's men, who also possessed psychic powers, to search for the elders' main base through psychic powers, and then attack directly.

This method might have worked before, but now that the elders have retreated, it is difficult to implement. Besides, the elders must have the ability or creation to conceal psychic perception, and the psychic network must have been further encrypted during this period.

The small number of psychic soldiers in the human resistance and the members of the Knights Templar have only recently mastered psychic powers and are unable to conduct such a large-scale investigation. The magic toad priests are not creatures of this world, so even though there is a subspace here, they do have powerful psychic powers, but they still need some time to further adapt to some subtle differences in this world.

Ordinary human resistance forces suggested that it is possible to build some shelters that can isolate the Elders' psychic network and the influence of the [Avatar Plan] to protect humans.

This proposal was quickly rejected. Let's not talk about whether they have the ability to build such a thing. Even if they can really build such a thing, how many can they build? How many people can they protect? How will they fight against the new elders after that?

All three methods were rejected, and no one was able to come up with another feasible solution for a while.

"Are you trying to find a needle in a haystack?"

“Even if we want to find a needle in a haystack, we don’t know where to start!”

"We don't have time to search bit by bit. There's not much time left!"

No one had any good ideas, and the discussion began to turn into an argument.

At this moment, Zhang Yi completely ignored the increasingly intense meeting and thought about possible solutions based on the information he knew.

The best way at this stage is undoubtedly to go to the main base of the elders and completely eliminate them, as Volker from the Death Faction said.

There should be at least one portal for transporting troops on each continent. Perhaps the location of the portal can be determined by monitoring the psychic fluctuations at a fixed location on a continent.

However, at this stage, the elders have already begun to tighten their forces. As we have demonstrated our powerful orbital strike capability and they have no good way to deal with it, it is unlikely that they will transport troops on a large scale, and they will not have any advantage on the front battlefield.

In other words, it is entirely possible for the elders to completely close the portal in and out of the main base to prevent the location of their base from being exposed and invaded until the [Incarnation Plan] is completed.

Then we can only try to go through the easier-to-find teleporter inside the Chosen One’s fortress... Is there a teleporter inside their fortress?

Zhang Yi recalled the scene in the game when the player controlled his team members to kill the "Chosen One" and let it return to the sarcophagus to repair its injuries, and then a small number of alien reinforcements appeared on various platforms through psychic teleportation.

But there aren't any technological creations. It feels like the [original], where teleportation is done purely using psychic energy.

Then use your own [Conditional Retrieval and Transmission Ability]?

However, there is more than one portal that serves as our entrance. Even if we can open the portal that was closed by the elders, Zhang Yi doesn't know how his abilities will react when faced with multiple identical things.

Secondly, even if Zhang Yi directly targets the elders or incarnations, they also exist in multiple numbers...

It is not reliable to use the Elders' underwater base in my memory as the target. The size of the map in the game is obviously unlikely to be the same as the size and scale of the real world. There must be various differences.

This method is not reliable, so how to solve this problem?

"...The elders' main base should be somewhere in the Pacific Ocean."

Zhang Yi's sudden words quieted down the originally noisy meeting room.

"Some island in the Pacific?"

"No." Zhang Yi shook his head. "It's on the bottom of the sea."

"They should have built a secret main base somewhere on the seabed, and the elders' men enter and exit the base through the psychic portal." Zhang Yi said. "That is to say, it is basically impossible for us to enter there via underwater vehicles."

"Whether we can find it is one thing. There may be various defense devices around the base. Besides, we don't have any underwater vehicles that can perform this task at this stage."

Zhang Yi recalled the sign in the game that was erected right in the center of the ocean, representing the location of the elders' main base.

A series of situations have confirmed that the displayed situation cannot be the same as in the game, and there will be various differences between the two.

But what is certain is that the Elders' main base is somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.

"Make preparations for both situations." Zhang Yi pondered for a long time and said, "You should have the approximate location of at least one Chosen One's fortress, right?"

The XCOM commander nodded.

"Gather your forces, go to one of the Chosen Ones' fortresses, and try to occupy it as completely as possible." Zhang Yi said. "There may be a psychic portal that can lead directly to the Elders' main base."

"I will send several Space Marines to accompany you."

"What about the 'other plan' you mentioned?"

"If that time comes, I will have my ships bombard the Pacific Ocean," Zhang Yi said. "Indiscriminate bombing."

"The output is even more powerful than before. The powerful energy beam will evaporate a large amount of seawater and stir up the entire ocean, causing huge waves."